Posted on 09/09/2025 12:39:04 PM PDT by DFG
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a William F. Buckley Jr. Forever stamp Tuesday and immediately sparked a torrent of fury from left-wing accounts on X.
USPS says the first-day-of-issue ceremony kicks off Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at Yale’s Beinecke Plaza in New Haven, where Buckley graduated and launched his long public career; the black-and-white portrait is based on a 1960s photograph. The stamp is now live in the Postal Store, with Sept. 9 listed as the official issue date.
“Today we’re honoring the legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. by releasing this hand-designed Forever® stamp,” USPS posted.
Today we’re honoring the legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. by releasing this hand-designed Forever® stamp. William F. Buckley Jr. was an author known for his wit, and a longtime TV host who brought thoughtful debate to living rooms all over the country. Order yours and other… pic.twitter.com/srhZO2L4js
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) September 9, 2025
Buckley, founder of National Review and host of PBS’s “Firing Line,” “shaped the conservative movement into a formidable political force,” the agency notes in its backgrounder previewing the issue. USPS first announced the Buckley stamp as part of its 2025 program in March.
The announcement sent left-leaning users into a meltdown. Among them was Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson, who replied to the USPS post to call Buckley a “pompous ass and a bigot who used fancy words as a substitute for logical thought.”
he was a pompous ass and a bigot who used fancy words as a substitute for logical thought https://t.co/b3XTMNsedv https://t.co/oPSUrwpmhH
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) September 9, 2025
“Buckley was also known for being a very racist White American Catholic,” Nate Tinner-Williams, editor at Black Catholic Messenger, observed.
“F*ck this country—forever,” said Benjamin Kunkel, co-founder of a New York-based literary journal.
Conservatives, meanwhile, celebrated the honor for the man who, as USPS acknowledges, helped define modern American conservatism. National Review promoted the release to its readers, while the Buckley Institute urged supporters to attend the dedication at Yale.
USPS lists Sept. 9, 2025, as the issue date and New Haven, Connecticut, as the location on its sales page; collectors can also buy the digital color postmark with the event’s date and city.
Which made Buckley very happy.
I qualify big time. Watched many a firing line.
The lefties are projecting as usual.
Can someone please tell me why the USPS spends large amounts of money for the design and printing of special stamps when, from what I have seen, they are always operating in the red?
There is no practical purpose for such stamps.
There are so many people deserved of stamps that aren’t there yet thanks to the wokeness of postal ideas.
* Chairman of the Board
* The Intimidator
* Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
Now we get a biggie on the list, it’s fitting that we get this legend on a stamp. In the history of the movement, WFB deserves his laurels. Rush is next.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYgFRu_rebc
It should be primarily our baddest ass hero’s and the instruments they used to kill our enemies…😉
Now you want to see liberal heads explode, let them put out a stamp honoring Rush Limbaugh.
usps incentive programs.
get a discount if some of your mailing is generated by AI. Third one discussed.
The sad thing about Rand was her atheism, which is usually not a factor with most conservatives.
Sad. Libertarianism has some good ideas. It falls apart at the boundary conditions.
But those communist scumbags had no problem naming a naval ship after a butt-humping pervert...
But those communist scumbags had no problem naming a naval ship after a butt-humping pervert...
As well as a supporter of one of the worst mass murderers in history, the Communist Jim Jones.
Can someone please tell me why the USPS spends large amounts of money for the design and printing of special stamps when, from what I have seen, they are always operating in the red?
There is no practical purpose for such stamps.
Hence, many of them are profitable.
It’s an actual revenue stream because of collectors.
The real question is should we continue to have a uniform national cost for mail to every address in the US or should they charge by weight AND distance like Fed Ex and UPS do?
None of the other services deliver to every address in the US daily, 6 days a week for exactly the same price regardless of where the sender and recipient live.
Also 1st class mail has both statutory and common law 4th and 5th amendment protections.
That humping pervert got BOTH a stamp AND a ship.
Thankfully, the man Trump picked out of Seat No. 3 of Fox & Friends said “Warrior Ethos” and changed the ship’s name. Now remove all the SJW’s names on the class. RBG? Earl Warren? John Lewis? Obama staff named all oiling ships for the Left’s social justice warriors. Replace them with MLB players of World War II who served.
Maybe we need to look at naming an Army ship the USAV Walter Maynard Moore, Jr. (NASCAR car owner who served in the Army, part of D-Day), and have it announced at Converse College (which owns the property that was once Moore’s race shop).
Soon a new generation of names need to be added. USAV Patrick Tillman.
Mail has a uniform cost for one ounce. Uniform costs are up to a pound. Every other one has a differing cost.
The feds also have a mandate that FedEx and UPS be X times more expensive than the post office, which must be repealed for shipping.
Let them.
Who really cares?
K
Okay, thanks.
Thanks for your answers.
You posit some very good questions.
-Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.
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